We're building healthcare tech for a system that desperately needs it.
Each year, millions of Americans deal with confusing changes to their Medicare plans that impact their prescriptions, access to care, and pocketbooks. These aren’t just inconveniences – they are potentially life-altering changes that leave seniors medically and financially vulnerable.
Independent Medicare advisors play a crucial role in guiding seniors through this complexity and helping them find the right coverage for their needs. But their ability to be effective healthcare advocates has long been hamstrung by broken tools and outdated systems.
Spark is fixing that. We’re the fastest-growing Medicare platform in the country, combining AI, an industry-leading CRM, and client services to transform how 10,000+ brokers acquire, enroll, and support clients in their local communities.
Join a talent-dense team from Square, Ramp, Yext, Oscar, and Cedar — backed by Primary Ventures and Viewpoint Ventures — that is serious about building technology to expand access to quality healthcare. We offer remote work, sabbaticals, company retreats, and other generous benefits that earned us recognition as one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces of 2025
Healthcare is overdue for innovation. Let’s redefine what its future looks like — together.
Spark is looking to bring on a Staff Software Engineer that will drive progress in the Medicare industry’s evolution. As a staff-level member of our engineering team, you’ll own meaningful pieces of our technical roadmap and set a high bar for how we build. This will involve delivering impactful feature sets to our industry-leading web-based broker platform, making architectural decisions to support its long-term health and stability, and shaping the technical direction of your product domain.
Your day-to-day responsibilities will be diverse: you’ll engage in both frontend and backend development, partner with product and design leadership on scope and tradeoffs, mentor engineers around you, and own the long-term technical health of the systems you work in - including knowing when a system needs to be replaced, not just improved.
This is a hybrid opportunity, that will require a one week onboarding period in our NYC office in the Flatiron district, followed by an expectation of 2-3 days in office.
- Deliver impactful full-stack features that benefit Medicare brokers and beneficiaries, while setting the quality bar for how the team builds
- Partner closely with product and design leadership to shape scope, surface tradeoffs, and influence roadmap decisions
- Own system-level decisions within your product domain, drive key system and architectural decisions that ensure our platform is set up for elegant solutions to our customers’ problems
- Identify systemic sources of technical debt and own their resolution, balancing short-term velocity with long-term platform health
- Establish and evolve engineering standards - from code review practices to system design principles - leading by example and mentoring engineers around you
- Build with modern AI-powered developer tools that remove friction and let you focus on meaningful problems, and help us continue to grow how we use them across the team
- 8+ years of professional experience with either modern JS (Vue, React) or Python/backend web development, with meaningful hands-on experience in both
- Comfort with ambiguity; ability to thrive in fast-paced environments
- Product intuition and a track record of connecting technical investments to business outcomes and influencing roadmap decisions upstream of execution
- Fluency with AI-powered development tools as part of your everyday workflow
- Exceptional communication skills - able to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and vice versa
- Demonstrated track record of leading architectural decisions at the domain level and shipping customer-facing products with technical excellence
- Commitment to a growth-oriented team culture focused on learning, continuous improvement, and winning together
- Experience working directly with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Expertise in Django or similar
- Track record of defining technical strategy at the domain or team level
- History of raising engineering standards through mentorship and code review culture
Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our company’s size and industry, and are one part of the total compensation package that also includes equity, benefits, and other opportunities at Spark. In accordance with New York City, Colorado, California, and other applicable laws, Spark is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity. A reasonable estimate of the current salary range is listed below. We expect most candidates to fall in the middle of the range. We also believe that your personal needs and preferences should be taken into consideration, so we allow some choice between equity and cash.
Why you should join our team
By joining Spark, you will get in on the ground floor of a fast-moving, well-funded, and mission-driven startup where you will have a profound impact on the brokers and beneficiaries we serve. And you'll learn, grow, be challenged, and have fun with your team while doing it.
We strive to help you and your family thrive. We're committed to supporting your happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing a comprehensive benefits program. In addition to your base salary, we also offer:
- Equity compensation
- Health care, including dental and vision through our PEO Sequoia
- Flexible work location; co-working available
- 401k
- Paid Time Off
- Monthly Remote Work Stipend (help cover costs of home-office needs)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Up to 14 weeks for birthing parents
- Up to 8 weeks for non-birth parents
- 11 paid holidays
- 2 week sabbatical at 5 years of employment
- Wellbeing Perks through SpringHealth, OneMedical, PerkSpot, and SoFi
Compliance
Spark is a proud participant in E-Verify. As part of our commitment to compliance, we use the E-Verify program to confirm the employment eligibility of all employees working in the United States. For more information about E-Verify, please visit www.e-verify.gov.
Furthermore, for security and compliance requirements, we’re unable to accommodate international remote work. While we fully support travel and time off, all work must be conducted from an approved location within the U.S.
At Spark, we are committed to hiring the best team to serve our clients regardless of their background. We need diverse perspectives to reflect the diversity of our problems and the population we serve. We look to hire people from a variety of backgrounds, including, but not limited to, race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, disability, and veteran status.
AI Notice: We may use AI-enabled tools to assist with certain aspects of our hiring process. These tools do not replace human decision-making, and all employment decisions are made by qualified team members in compliance with applicable laws.
Skills Required
- 8+ years professional experience with modern JavaScript (Vue, React) and Python/backend web development
- Meaningful hands-on experience in both frontend and backend development
- Ability to lead architectural decisions and own system-level technical direction
- Fluency with AI-powered developer tools as part of everyday workflow
- Exceptional communication skills; translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
- Product intuition and track record connecting technical investments to business outcomes
- Commitment to mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards through code review and practices
- Work must be conducted from an approved US location; one-week onboarding in NYC and 2-3 days/week in office thereafter
- Experience working directly with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Expertise in Django or similar frameworks
- Track record of defining technical strategy at the domain or team level
- History of raising engineering standards through mentorship and code review culture
Spark Advisors Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage is paired with HSA/FSA options and access to Spring Health and One Medical. Coverage is administered via Sequoia and begins on the employee’s start date, with fertility support also noted.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave offers up to 14 weeks for birthing parents and up to 8 weeks for non-birth parents, with a structured return-to-work program. Childcare benefits are available through PerkSpot alongside paid family medical leave.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Meaningful equity is provided to all employees with an Employee Stock Purchase Plan available to further share in long-term growth. These ownership opportunities complement core cash compensation and other financial benefits.
Spark Advisors Insights
What We Do
We're building healthcare tech for a system that desperately needs it. Each year, millions of Americans deal with confusing changes to their Medicare plans that impact their prescriptions, access to care, and pocketbooks. These aren’t just inconveniences – they are potentially life-altering changes that leave seniors medically and financially vulnerable. Independent Medicare advisors play a crucial role in guiding seniors through this complexity and helping them find the right coverage for their needs. But their ability to be effective healthcare advocates has long been hamstrung by broken tools and outdated systems. Spark is fixing that. We’re the fastest-growing Medicare platform in the country, combining AI, an industry-leading CRM, and client services to transform how 10,000+ brokers acquire, enroll, and support clients in their local communities.
Why Work With Us
Work on problems that actually matter — alongside exceptional people from Square, Ramp, Yext & more. We're redefining healthcare access, and we take care of our team along the way: remote work, sabbaticals, retreats & benefits that earned us Inc. Best Workplaces 2025.
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